Quotes About Performance

Though all actors do not make good directors, Dhanush is really one of the finest. He knows exactly how to direct an actor to extract the performance the way he wants it. Perhaps that is happening because he is a performer himself.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.

As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time.

You don't win games by batting long periods of time.

As an actor, you're not working every day and sometimes not for long periods of time.

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're all guilty of that - Spandau Ballet included.

Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.